About the book: 2000 / Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996) - German writer, author of the world famous novels “Pigeons in the Grass” published in Russian, "Greenhouse", "Death in Rome". The novel Notes from Underground was first published in 1948 under the name of Jacob Littner, a stamp dealer who lived through the horrors of the ghetto, miraculously survived, and one day told his story to a young German publisher, who published his notes on his experiences. Only forty-three years later, the famous German Wolfgang Koeppen admitted to the authorship of the book..